This a fast-paced thriller, a dystopian novel about the danger of unchecked power-especially religious-based, and a fascinating excursion into a variety of psychic powers. The walled city of Deliverance contains the chosen people, gifted with a form telekinesis called psi. The use their minds to perform tasks previously done by hand. Those without psi are banished to the Powerless Colony and live much as people lived before the Big War. After an accident, Taemon loses his psi and his chance to be named First Son. His brother, Yens, is so named. Will his negotiations with the Republic secure peace and prosperity? This is an excellent treatment of what it means to be different, how freaklings - those who are deemed different - have made a hug difference in the fate of the world. It is an awesome tribute to the value of libraries, books, and the knowledge contained therein.
Truman Award Preliminary Award 2014-15
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